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husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


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“There are people in volumes that are reconsidering donations,” said Victoria Alandy, who graduated Cornell in 2020 and organized the pledge with her husband, also an alum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

She said the bird had chased off her husband as well as a neighbor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Martinson's wife wrote online that her husband was "incredibly driven, hardworking and ambitious".

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

A week after the Facebook page was shuttered, she said she remained undecided about vaccinating her children, explaining that she and her husband worried about possible side effects.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Her house had burned down and her husband was missing.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

“There are a lot of women whose husbands are not going to work today.”

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The ingredients—lumpen husbands; wives that look like overripe supermodels; enough Spandex for Christo to have wrapped the Cooperstown Hall of Fame—are all predictably and obviously engineered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Suvorova writes about girls in school accusing her mother of being a gold digger, intentionally choosing rich boyfriends that would eventually become rich husbands while they lived in poverty and couch surfed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Photos of sons, daughters, uncles and husbands pepper Chinese social media, shared by people hoping for news about relatives missing since deadly floods on the border with Nepal last week.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Deah, who had lost two husbands to the fighting, and whose face and mouth and heart were hard and cold as stone.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

He married Paula Schwartz in 1983, and with her he tenderly husbanded the land, planting an effusion of flora.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2019

After his parents divorced, Folkert’s mom did yard work and landscaping and cleaned houses to earn money — which she husbanded with care.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2018

Tollett has not only husbanded the landscape; he has branded it.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017

Instead, he husbanded it, and Russia grew rich.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2017

Wang Lung allowed nothing to be bought and sold after the winter came except what he said, and he husbanded carefully all that they had.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

The glimpse reminded voters that Davis, who was husbanding his resources for a late advertising push, was still in the race.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

China did this by building up domestic industries, developing alternative sources for scarce inputs and carefully husbanding its strengths in areas where they saw a chance to seize control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

Allies allow you to project power while husbanding your own resources.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

"The greater risk environment for financials leads to husbanding of capital and risk-taking, less and more conservative investing and lending, and inevitably, lower growth," said Blankfein, who also served as Goldman's chairman, told Reuters.

From Reuters ● Mar. 20, 2023

Aragorn let them drift with the stream as they wished, husbanding their strength against weariness to come.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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